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What Is SAP Migration Strategy?
With the last major release of SAP ECC, version 6.0 EHP 8, made available in 2016, the question facing SAP customers is around the move to SAP S/4HANA. While SAP has extended mainstream maintenance for the ECC 6.0 platform until the end of 2027, with an optional premium maintenance available for an additional three years, those running these solutions need to decide on the move to SAP S/4HANA. The three biggest factors around this move are when they will move, and how they will move, and where they will move.
What Is SAP Migration Strategy?
With the last major release of SAP ECC, version 6.0 EHP 8, made available in 2016, the question facing SAP customers is around the move to SAP S/4HANA. While SAP has extended mainstream maintenance for the ECC 6.0 platform until the end of 2027, with an optional premium maintenance available for an additional three years, those running these solutions need to decide on the move to SAP S/4HANA. The three biggest factors around this move are when they will move, and how they will move, and where they will move.
The when is a question that is up to each organization. However, with the majority of organizations taking between 12 and 18 months once the business case has already been made, the period before mainstream maintenance ends can approach very quickly. Once the decision has been made when to move, organizations must then determine what approach they will take to their SAP migration. Will they simply move everything as is into SAP S/4HANA? Will they start from scratch to produce as clean a system as possible? Or will they take an intermediate route? The last factor is where they will move. With most organizations moving SAP workloads to the cloud, this may be the route of choice. However, others will want hybrid environments or entirely local infrastructure.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- Understand what other organizations are saying about their SAP Migration Strategy. These include: 1) the fact that the biggest challenge is often building the business case, 2) moves to a new ERP system are both resource intensive as well as expensive, 3) newer versions of SAP S/4HANA include significant business benefits, and 4) the move to SAP S/4HANA represents a major opportunity to improve business operations.
- Ensure that you have planned effectively for the migration. When migrating from your existing ERP system, there are important tips that you can follow to ensure that processes are successful. First, engage your business teams in the process. While this is an investment in resources, there will be more success with the overall project if your business teams are involved from the beginning. Second, remove unnecessary custom code. Limiting what you have to move forward will make the process much easier. And lastly, plan for a phased approach. You will want to have dry runs and even maintain both systems in parallel to ensure that they are working correctly.
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6 Solutions to SAP S/4HANA Migration Challenges
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Digital transformation is the process of undergoing multiple changes—internal and external—and leveraging digital technologies to become more agile, optimized, and efficient. In order to keep pace with digital transformation, organizations must adopt modernized IT such as SAP S/4HANA—a significant investment that requires preparation. This article reveals six challenges that may prevent businesses from moving forward…
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Vodafone Sets New Benchmark on Its Intelligent Enterprise Journey with SAP S/4HANA Migration and Strategic Business Model
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Before going live with one of the largest SAP S/4HANA systems in the world in just 18 months, Vodafone operated a multinational technology communications company supported by a core business model in a single instance of SAP ECC. To better support the company’s 93,000 employees, it needed to increase process automation and standardization, achieve a…
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What To Expect When Migrating Finance From SAP ECC To SAP S/4HANA
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SAP has announced that they will no longer support ECC ERP systems beginning in 2025 and from that date, will only offer and support SAP S/4HANA ERP systems. In the ensuing years, the majority of companies will need to migrate from their soon-to-be-obsolete ECC systems to SAP S/4HANA, and this includes transitioning their finance operations.…
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Redesigning Roles and Analyzing Custom Transactions to Prepare for SAP S/4HANA Migration
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Case Study: Preparing your ECC for SAP S/4HANA
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Key Considerations When Planning Your SAP S/4HANA Migration
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With so many SAP customers entering the planning phase for their SAP S/4HANA migrations due to the upcoming 2025 deadline to make the move, questions abound on precisely steps companies need to take and in what order. Customers left and right are in dire This content is for Basic Access, SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual…
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Best Practices For Migrating To SAP S/4HANA
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Moving to SAP S/4HANA represents an opportunity for organizations to reimagine their central IT functions for modern business needs. Thousands of SAP customers have already begun the migration to take advantage of the speed of its in-memory database platf This content is for Basic Access, SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual Subscription, and SAPinsider Premium Annual…
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Prepare for an SAP S/4HANA Migration
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SAP S/4HANA (S/4HANA) provides businesses with a suite of applications that run on the SAP HANA database and can help the business become an intelligent enterprise, but there any many questions an organization needs to consider before migrating. What fact This content is for Basic Access, SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual Subscription, and SAPinsider Premium…
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An Insider’s Look at SAP S/4HANA Migration Drivers
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The intelligent enterprise is a conceptual framework for how businesses can leverage emerging technologies such as cloud, big data, and internet of things to develop a sophisticated and comprehensive view into customer and workforce behavior, business processes, technology infrastructure, and much more. SAP S/4HANA (S/4HANA) provides businesses with a suite of applications that run on…...…
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Migrating to SAP S/4HANA
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